---
layout: single
property_name: column-width
---

<section id="column-width" class="property">
  <header class="property-header">
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    <h2 class="property-name">
      <a href="#column-width"><span>#</span>column-width</a>
    </h2>
    <div class="property-description">
      <p>Defines the number of columns of the element.</p>

    </div>

  </header>





    <section class="example">
      <header class="example-header">
        <p class="example-name">
            <code class="example-default" data-tooltip="This is the property's default value">default</code>


          <code class="example-value" data-tooltip="Click to copy" data-clipboard-text="column-width: auto;">column-width: auto;</code>
        </p>
        <div class="example-description">
          <p>The element will <strong>not</strong> distribute its child elements into columns, unlesse a <code class="shorthand"><a href="http://cssreference.io/#column-count">column-count</a></code> value is defined. In that case, the column width will be infered from the column count.</p>

        </div>
      </header>

      <aside class="example-preview">
        <div class="example-browser"><i></i><i></i><i></i></div>
        <div class="example-output">
          <div class="example-output-div column-width " id="column-width-auto"><p class="block block--alpha">Hello world</p><p class="block block--beta">Foo bar</p><p class="block block--pink">CSS Reference</p></div>
        </div>
      </aside>
          <style type="text/css">#column-width-auto{ column-width:auto;}</style>
    </section>
    <section class="example">
      <header class="example-header">
        <p class="example-name">


          <code class="example-value" data-tooltip="Click to copy" data-clipboard-text="column-width: 10px;">column-width: 10px;</code>
        </p>
        <div class="example-description">
          <p>You can use <strong>pixel</strong> values for the column width.</p>
<p>The number of columns will be the minimum needed to distribute all the content across the element.</p>

        </div>
      </header>

      <aside class="example-preview">
        <div class="example-browser"><i></i><i></i><i></i></div>
        <div class="example-output">
          <div class="example-output-div column-width " id="column-width-10px"><p class="block block--alpha">Hello world</p><p class="block block--beta">Foo bar</p><p class="block block--pink">CSS Reference</p></div>
        </div>
      </aside>
          <style type="text/css">#column-width-10px{ column-width:10px;}</style>
        <style type="text/css">#column-width-10px{ -moz-column-width: 10px;-webkit-column-width: 10px; }</style>
    </section>

</section>
